49. Rolando Blackman

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Along with having one of the coolest names in NBA history, Rolando Blackman was the number one or number two option for the only Dallas Mavericks teams to make the postseason and not have a big German named Nowitzki on the team.

He was a great shooter who could score with ease, and as his career wore on he developed a three-point shot to extend his life in the NBA.

48. Danny Ainge

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Yea, he traded away Kendrick Perkins and lost the Celtics' edge this season, but he was a good player while he was with the team.

The starting two-guard for most of the 80s with Larry Bird's Celtics, Ainge could shoot the three-ball like nobody's business and was a hard-nosed defender, but back on Larry's teams you had to be or you weren't on Larry's teams.

45. John Starks

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Poor John Starks came around too early. Had he been born five or six years later the New York Knicks would have picked him up and given him a huge contract rather than actually being wise with him in the early 90s. He would have made four times as much money if born just a few years later.

Nonetheless, Starks was an excellent defender as a part of Patrick Ewing's Knicks teams and could shoot the ball with great skill.

He was a bit trigger-happy with the three ball, shooting over 3,500 downtowners in his career, but he did make a good hunk of them, so there wasn't much to complain about.

44. Steve Smith

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Steve Smith is what we in the business call a team ho. He bounced around the league so much that it seems like every team got a piece of him at some point, so he doesn't have much of an identity for his 13 years in the league.

Smith was a decent defender, but he made his money shooting the ball, as he peaked from 1996 to 1998 scoring 20 points a game.

He led the league once in three-point percentage, shooting 47 percent from downtown in 2002.

43. Jerry Sloan

Many people now know Jerry Sloan as the buttoned-down, prim and proper coach that had coached the Jazz for what seems like 79 years.

He was a great two-guard in his days with the Chicago Bulls, however, making a name for himself as a feisty rebounder, an above-average scorer and a great defender.

Had the league recorded steals for his entire career (they didn't until his last three years), Sloan would have had a few seasons where he cracked three a game, something that has only happened 11 times in NBA history, and he could have made a run for four in his prime.

40. Jeff Hornacek

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He was bland, he was white, and he played in the whitest town around (where his whiteness was overshadowed by John Stockton), but man was he good for a long period of time.

Hornacek would defend anyone on the court who wanted to have a go at him, and he was usually pretty good at it, plus he could shoot the long ball with relative ease, averaging 40 percent for his career.

38. World B. Free

If you disregard his hairline, which makes him look like a Chinese man during the Qing Dynasty, World B. Free was an impressive player.

He averaged over 20 points a game from 1978 to 1986, peaking with 28 points in '79 and 30 in '80, and was one of the few older players to eventually embrace the three-point line when it was created, shooting 34 percent from downtown for his career.

32. Latrell Sprewell

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Everyone remembers Sprewell for the choking incident and the "I can't feed my family" comment, but nobody ever seems to remember how good he was.

He may have been an off-and-on defender, depending on how crazy he was feeling on any given day, but he could score like nobody's business, averaging 18 points a game for his 12 year career, which could have been more had teams not given up on him for being such a jerk.

29. Penny Hardaway

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Penny Hardaway was a beast when he was playing with a certain dominant center named Shaquille, but injuries dragged his career down soon after he entered the league, otherwise he could have cracked the top 10.

He made it to four all-star games before his body started to break down and came in third in MVP voting in 1996.

Hardaway eventually refined his skills as a three-point shooter later in his career to stick around, and finished averaging 15 points a game.

24. Drazen Petrovic

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Drazen Petrovic was an amazing player in his short amount of time with us here in the NBA.

Once he ended up in New Jersey in his third year in the league and earned a starting spot the guy absolutely took off, averaging 20 and 22 points a game over the next two years with three-point percentages over 45 percent for both years.

Petrovic could have very well averaged 50-40-90 for his career but his untimely death will always leave us wondering what could have been.

20. Sidney Moncrief

Another guy with an awesome name, and an even cooler nickname (the Squid) Moncrief was a force in the mid-80s.

One of the most versatile two-guards before the Michael Jordan Era, Moncrief averaged 15 points, five rebounds and four assists in his career, but had peaks where he averaged around 22, seven and five.

17. Reggie Miller

Reggie Miller split time at the two and three spot, but he was good enough to be mentioned in either position.

Miller held the all-time three-point record until this season, and was one of the most clutch players of the 90s not named Michael Jordan.

We all know about how he torched the Knicks and killed Spike Lee, and how great of a three-point shooter he was, but he was also one of the few in NBA history to have a season averaging 50-40-90, which he did in 1993-94.

12. Dwyane Wade

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Dwyane Wade is slowly climbing his way up this list, and if you count brains in this operation he should probably be higher, as he seems like the guy that convinced LeBron James and Chris Bosh to join him in Miami.

Wade does things with the ball that people haven't seen from the shooting guard spot since Michael Jordan did them.

He is averaging 25 points a game for his career currently to go along with five rebounds, six assists, two steals and a block.

10. Clyde Drexler

The Glide was something else on the basketball court. He was the smoothest runner, passer, dunker, shooter and defender at his position, and if it weren't for MJ, he would be a top five contender.

Drexler averaged 20 points, six rebounds, five assists and two steals a game in his career, making nine all-star games and finally winning a title in 1995 with the Rockets when Jordan was out of the league.

4. Kobe Bryant

I had Kobe as low as fifth and as high as second in this ranking, but I finally settled on putting him in at number four.

He still has room to grow as his legacy grows on me, but right now I feel that number four is a good spot for the man.

Kobe was the Robin to Shaquille O'Neal's Batman for three of his championships, was a distraction for a few years after Shaq left, but finally became a team oriented guy when Pau Gasol fell into his lap.

He has career averages of 25 points, five rebounds and nearly five assists for his career and is still climbing his way up the all-time lists.